Appointments boost campus research potential
Dr
Rosalind Lau is a trained neonatal nurse with
extensive experience in neonatal special and intensive care nurseries,
having worked in hospital-based nurseries in England, New Zealand and
Australia.
Her major contribution is in applied
health psychology, particularly in stress, coping and social support in the
field of neonatal nursing. Rosalind received the New Investigator Award in
2000 from the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand for a
preliminary report of her doctoral study, a controlled comparison of
biochemical and psychological stress indices in parents of premature infants
admitted to a Special Care Nursery.
Rosalind
will be
responsible for managing the
Baby Boomer project
is looking for people to participate in the study. |
Rosalind was an associate
unit manager in the special and intensive care nurseries at
the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne for over 10 years and
in 1998 took up the position of a research nurse and was
involved in several projects including randomized controlled
trials, cross-over, case control and cohort studies as well
as cross-sectional surveys.
From February 2004 to March 2006 she was
a Research Assistant at Victoria University and worked on several large
scale surveys on ageing and was the project manager for an International
Ageing Well study with three cultural and linguistically diverse
communities. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals on
stress experiences of parents of preterm infants, neonatal resuscitation and
neonatal ventilation. She has also published two book chapters on stress
experiences and ageing issues. In 2003 she was invited by Nova Science
publisher to contribute a chapter in their book “Stress and Health: New
Research”. Her major interests are statistics and public health and she has
considerable experience in study design, database management and analysis of
large data sets.
Dr Christopher King will be featured in the next issue of
Monash Peninsula Research Matters.
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